Cebuano Artists Painting Collection- Nida Alcoseba
Spring Lake, 1965, 48" x 26" , Avanzado Family Collection Growing up in our old home in Mandaue , Cebu in the early seventies, the centerpiece of our living room beside the piano was the beautiful 48"x26" Spring Lake, a 1965 impressionist painting by Nida Alcoseba Samaniego. Nida Alcoseba was originally from Carcar , Cebu but she lived her most of life in General Santos City . She studied Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas and one of her professors was the National Artist Prof. Victor Edades . Her daughter Marite said that the painting in our living room was her signature painting style, which has elements of realism and impressionism . She relayed to me that she has a similar painting, but the theme was in Autumn , (Autumn Lake) whereas our painting depicts Springtime. Nida's daughter, Marite Samaniego Castro , is also a well-respected artist who manages an art gallery in Manila . From my correspondence with her, I learned that Nida pas